>Studio Ghibli just announced its first ever TV series, and even more exciting it’s an adaptation of a book by Astrid Lindgren. “Sanzoku no Musume Ronja”, or “Ronja the Robber’s Daughter”, will be aired in Japan starting on August 31. It is a coproduction with 3DCG studio Polygon Pictures (known for animating some of Ghost in the Shell, among others), to be directed by Goro Miyazaki. More details are forthcoming.

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Pacing was awful. The progression of the I-love-you-oh-no-we're-related-oh-wait-we're-not-happy-end developments was so ill-timed and devoid of emotion that it totally ruined what could have been a great setup for dramatic tension by blowing the secret halfway through and in a supremely uninteresting way.
Characters had weak or no development. Umi is a total cypher. Shun is a watered-down version of the love interest in Whisper of the Heart. Even the nameless Quartier Latin guys are way more interesting.
No cinematographer's eye. Dull, uninteresting angles on everything, even where there should be an exciting cityscape or a dramatic view of the sea.
Soundtrack: not Hisaishi/10.

The Quartier Latin scenes were seriously the only enjoyable part. The movie's time would have much better been spent on them rather than boredom trip to Tokyo and all the dramatic handwringing about "muh fammleeeee".

It's not shit, it's a big ball of wasted potential, and that is somehow even worse.

As a swede, I'm really not looking forward to this. People will never shut up about it, because that author is basically the fucking deity of this country, and no one will admit to the fact that Finland beat us by creating the Moomins.